You have got to see this Blue Orp/Daddy Long legs UPDATE INFO

[MissPrissy]

I'd like to see him when he grows into those legs.

 

[NYREDS]

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If it's Orpingtons you want why would you want to breed from this bird anyway? The breed description for Orpingtons calls for their legs to be "moderately short, stout".

 

[CindyS]

The first pic looks like he has a pipe growing out of his back!

 

[BamaChicken]

NYReds your way to serious.

I don't even own the bird anymore. I am just posting hypotheticals cause he is so funny to look at. I guess my imagination is running away with me. Here are a few more pictures.

 

[KKluckers]

Julie I have a rooster like that and he is only 6 months old. How old is your friends boy? I was thinking of culling mine a while back because of his leggeness, but thought I would just wait it out. Mine looks like a big gangley teenager. Will see what both of them looked like all grow up and mature. Should be interesting. I had a buff rooster like that and I kept him and he matured into one of the best birds I have had.

 

[KKluckers]

Okay I have to show you my boy. This is Trouble he is from Angela Stanleys lines.

Not quite as leggy as yours, but he is alot more leggy then anything else I have.

 

[BamaChicken]

Hey Christina I picked those eggs up in April when we were returning from our Cruise so they must have hatched around the first week or two in May,so I would say around 5 months.

 

[Buster]

Thanks for the Orp pics! I will be getting some chick pics up soon of the birds I hatched from Julie in addition to some from my own birds. Can't ever get enough of those orps!

 

[KKluckers]

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So he is just a big, big baby

 

[BamaChicken]

He looks great. I have noticed they can look a bit leggy before the fluff settles in. I wouldn't breed to a leggy hen but I have read in some of the breeding info from the Orp club about putting a low wide pullet with large leggier male for larger offspring. The one I still have here is not nearly as broad or tall but he has a great personality. He is a real people person type chicken. Follows me like a dog and doesn't stay with the flock all the time. Not flighty or skiddish.